To Govern Means to Regulate Civil Order

Government is the right application of regulations to civil order. Government regulation effectively means regulatory reform. That’s not fundamentally a question of too many or too few regulations but of the right regulations applied rightly to structure civil well-being.

A philosophy of governing sets social goals and parameters of control for actualizing the optimal state of affairs. A nation or polity is usually a physical region with citizens approving regulations for governing themselves. Most citizens of a democracy would vote if they only knew for parameters that profit themselves and their environment best.

Political wags for some decades have talked about too many or too few regulations as if quantitative easing in either direction would elect good laws to develop social prosperity, security and spiritual health. A good philosophy of government comprises a selection of regulations to moderate the physical economy of the people for their benefit. It does not become the practitioners of the civil economy for-itself as in a communist or socialist system. Neither does it withdraw to become economically isolationist and let the strongest of the roughhouse capitalist dominate the ring as 8 billion pound guerrillas.

Good regulation is cost-effective. Promulgating laws is far cheaper than bui8lduing large capital intensive redistribution organizations. A good political philosopher in office selecting the right regulations for enactment as law is like a musical conductor directing his own composition with the orchestra of small and moderate size business performing the music. Economics is a free spirited sort of improvisation within limits phenomenally that require regulation rather than an anarchic battle of the musicians in a musical clash. One might believes that an invisible hand of evolution will generate the perfect economic balance after planetary apocalypse and perhaps it is so. I have felt that it is better to use intelligent design rather than the blind forces of evolution to move the privileged urban meatheads toward fair and balanced economic excellence for all.

Obamacare unfortunately is a synthetic attempt for government to operate and ossify a large business activity substituting compulsory participation for a competitive excellence attracting customers. It’s as if the government didn’t like the costs of computer technology so they created an affordable computer act requiring all computer sales and purchases in the U.S.A. go through the government. That’s a fundamentally wrong step for providing affordable health care or computers. Inevitably the free capitalist providers will find a way to make that mandatory civil participation an opportunity for maximum gouging.

There is an argument to be made for government being a substantive provider in some circumstances where the people aren’t able to provide for or defend themselves. An expanded V.A. system to well treat veterans that also treated America’s poor would have relieved hospitals and other providers and ultimately insurance companies and taxpayers from the high cost of the way emergency rooms have historically provided medical care to the poor. If the economy significantly improved fewer poor would eschew affordable free market health insurance and use the government provided V.A. medical structure for emergency treatment.

There is not just one right way to set the mix of regulations for the citizens, business and economy that is right and a few ways that are wrong. There are thousands of ways that would work inclusive of important concerns such as ecosphere, demographics, national security and ordinary quality of life and there are just as many ways that are wrong.

If the American economy today is a leaky cruise ship with a million globalist holes making it slowly sink there are few or none in politics willing to repair the hull while it still could be bailed out. If it is doomed, unlike the Titanic, the wealthy passengers can helicopter away from the top deck yet that is small comfort to those that can’t and yet remember when traveling even on the lower decks wasn’t so bad.